Mitchell is entering her fourth season with UCSB, as she is
coming off a year when they Gauchos had two players make the
all-conference team with Nicole Nestbit and Melissa Zornig being
named honorable mentions. Under Mitchell's tutelage, point guard
Onome Jemerigbe was named to the conference's all-freshman team,
while finishing the year with 67 assists, the eighth-most by a
Gaucho freshman.

In her second year at the helm, Mitchell again led UCSB to the
postseason with a trip to the WNIT. Overall, she coached the team
to a 16-17 record with an 11-7 mark in Big West play.

She also guided two Gauchos in earning all-conference accolades,
as senior Sweets Underwood was named a first-teamer and junior
Nicole Nesbit earned honorable mention.

During her first season leading the Gauchos, Carlene Mitchell
led UC Santa Barbara on a thrilling run to its 14th Big West
Tournament title, resulting in the program's 14th NCAA Tournament
appearance.

For her standout leadership in her first year at the helm,
Mitchell earned the distinction of being named one of three
finalists for the Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach of the Year Award,
which is presented by the Women's Basketball Coaches
Association.

Mitchell led the Gauchos to a 17-16 overall record during the
2011-12 campaign and an 8-8 mark in Big West Confernece play. Under
her tutelage, junior Kirsten Tilleman was named the Big West
Tournament's Most Valueable Player and sophomore Melissa Zornig
garnered All-Tournament Team accolades.

Mitchell was hired as UC Santa Barbara's head coach on May 19,
2011 after a very successful tenure at Rutgers.

Mitchell, the fifth head coach in program history, is in her
first head coaching job.

Prior to joining UCSB, Mitchell served 10 years as an assistant
coach at Rutgers, with the final three years spent as the team's
associate head coach.

Under the tutelage of Hall of Famer C .Vivian Stringer, Mitchell
has helped direct the Scarlet Knights to an NCAA berth in nine
straight seasons and a spot in the NCAA Regional Semifinals in five
of the past seven seasons. Mitchell, who served as the program's
recruiting coordinator since 2004, consistently landed the top
talent in the nation, including four top-15 recruiting classes and
the nation's top recruiting class in 2006-07.

Prior to Rutgers, Mitchell spent the 2000-01 season as the top
assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Oklahoma State
University. She was responsible for both preseason and off-season
conditioning, coaching the guards during practices, developing a
defensive game plan for each of Oklahoma State's opponents and
working with the program's summer camps.

Prior to her stop in Stillwater, Mitchell coached for two seasons
at Western Illinois University. While in Macomb, Ill.,
she helped the Westerwinds make a remarkable turnaround from a 7-19
record to an 18-11 mark the following season. Mitchell
assisted in the signing of 14 student-athletes to national letters
of intent. Three of those student-athletes were later named to the
Mid-Continent Conference All-First Team during their respective
careers.

Mitchell started her coaching career as a graduate assistant at
the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1997. Her
responsibilities with the Kangaroos included implementing strength
and conditioning programs, creating opponent scouting reports and
organizing all team travel.

Mitchell was the starting point guard as a senior at Kansas State
University during the 1995-96 season. She received a bachelor's
degree in social science from the school in 1996.

Mitchell also attended Allen County (Kan.) and Trinity Valley
(Texas) Community Colleges. She helped lead Trinity to the first of
their five unprecedented NJCAA National Championships in 1994.
Named All-Conference and selected to the NJCAA All-Tournament Team,
Mitchell still holds the single season assist record (337) and
assists in a game (17) mark in the Lady Cardinals record book. She
will join the school's Cardinal Hall of Fame in October, a member
of the Class of 2010.

A member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA),
Mitchell has been an invited guest to the Nike Villa 7 Coaches
Consortium on four occasions. The consortium was developed to bring
together university athletic directors and the country's elite
assistant basketball coaches in an effort to prepare coaches for
the next level.